This question leads to an extended list of other similar questions: what is the point of showing details of a dead body? Why is it exhibited in an art gallery? Is it a piece of art? Is observing death and suffering from a distance, and from the safe room of the gallery, pleasurable to the viewer? Does the interaction with death become entertaining and acceptable because of the detachment from the situation? On the other hand, does the exposed dead body contribute to the history of the place presented in the image or to our knowledge about the situation? Does it contribute to our familiarity and knowledge about the human being in the photo?
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While trying to rebuild photographic elements that refer to the presence of a rape culture, she wonders about the reasons behind hiding images of rape and why they lack existence in our visual archive - not convinced by the excuse of being an act happens in hidden places and far from spectators. (Azoulay, 2012). After excluding the porn industry production of staged or taken-in-reality rape images from our visual archive, I would agree with Azoulay to a certain extent: detailed and graphic rape images have a weak presence in our creative visual archive for culturally and humanly approved and obvious reasons. It is extremely unethical to display and share such a horrendous act and crime with others, as well as considering the fact that the act of rape is such a private moment of the victim’s life and that we –as art audience- don’t have the right to break through this space. One cannot imagine an exhibition celebrating or even displaying detailed images of rape victims during the act of rape or straight after and calling it ‘art’. Why don’t we see the same consideration and thinking go into displaying other crime pictures like war crimes and disasters? Aren’t victims of war and victims of rape are both sufferers of violence and
Exhibiting a dead body in an art gallery or on the TV screen on a regular basis is not informative about …show more content…
While trying to rebuild photographic elements that refer to the presence of a rape culture, she wonders about the reasons behind hiding images of rape and why they lack existence in our visual archive - not convinced by the excuse of being an act happens in hidden places and far from spectators. (Azoulay, 2012). After excluding the porn industry production of staged or taken-in-reality rape images from our visual archive, I would agree with Azoulay to a certain extent: detailed and graphic rape images have a weak presence in our creative visual archive for culturally and humanly approved and obvious reasons. It is extremely unethical to display and share such a horrendous act and crime with others, as well as considering the fact that the act of rape is such a private moment of the victim’s life and that we –as art audience- don’t have the right to break through this space. One cannot imagine an exhibition celebrating or even displaying detailed images of rape victims during the act of rape or straight after and calling it ‘art’. Why don’t we see the same consideration and thinking go into displaying other crime pictures like war crimes and disasters? Aren’t victims of war and victims of rape are both sufferers of violence and